4646 - 4918 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
= Graff was the husband of the artist Maria Sibylla Merian (divorced after 1684). With the collector's mark of Christian Hammer (Lugt 1238). The Tintoretto painting adorns the Sala del Collegio of the Doge's Palace in Venice. Graff worked in Venice between 1658 and 1660.AND a 19th cent. drawing of a medical scene w. attribution to "Heijdeck" in pencil on passepartout (perhaps Johannes Heydeck (1835-1910)), with the collector's mark of H. Haendcke (Lugt 1228a) on verso.
- A few spots in sky area; sl. soiled; margin extended w. japanese along blank margin on verso.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- A few small (closed) tears in margins. Titled (by the artist?) on verso in pencil.
- Laid down; sl. soiled.
- Some craquelure; frame a few sm. imperfections. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Vague stain in upper right corner (from glue on verso). = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
= View through the entrance gate of the ruins of Brederode castle. Title supplied on mount in pen and ink.
- Sm. stained spot in sky-area. Signature on mount vague (due to rubbing).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Both w. traces of glue in centre of sky area on recto.
= Both w. another drawing of verso: (A dune-scape) (pencil and watercolour) and (A tree) (pencil).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- Waterstain in lower margin (mainly visible on verso). = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
- Yellowed; under simple passepartout.
AND 11 other drawings by i.a. J.J. DELVIN and A. GREVIN.
- Doubled; mounted on paper along outer margins on verso; four pinholes in outer corners; outer right blank corners lack portion.
= "Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Houel (1735-1813), a landscape painter and engraver, studied architecture in Rouen before travelling to Paris. (...). Through the Marquis de Marigny he was sent to the French Academy in Rome in 1768, and the following year made his first trip to Napels and Sicily in the entourage of the Marquis d'Havrincourt. After his return to Paris in 1772 he exhibited his Italian views, which were well enough received that he determined on a second trip to Sicily. This he made from 1776 to 1779, including in his investigations Malta and Lipari. Here he assumed the role of observer, artist, and naturalist, amassing copious notes on new material. Claude-Henri Watelet and the director-general of the Gobelins Manufacture, d'Angivillers, were helpful in making this second trip possible. To finance it, Houel sold drawings that he had made in Italy when he returned to France. Forty-six were purchased by the king, and over five hundred by Catherine II of Russia. At this time he determined to publish the material he had accumulated on the voyage. (...) Houel was one of the first French artists to discover the antique ruins still visible in Sicily." (Millard, French Books, 80, note). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Doubled; mounted on paper along outer margins on verso.
= "Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Houel (1735-1813), a landscape painter and engraver, studied architecture in Rouen before travelling to Paris. (...). Through the Marquis de Marigny he was sent to the French Academy in Rome in 1768, and the following year made his first trip to Napels and Sicily in the entourage of the Marquis d'Havrincourt. After his return to Paris in 1772 he exhibited his Italian views, which were well enough received that he determined on a second trip to Sicily. This he made from 1776 to 1779, including in his investigations Malta and Lipari. Here he assumed the role of observer, artist, and naturalist, amassing copious notes on new material. Claude-Henri Watelet and the director-general of the Gobelins Manufacture, d'Angivillers, were helpful in making this second trip possible. To finance it, Houel sold drawings that he had made in Italy when he returned to France. Forty-six were purchased by the king, and over five hundred by Catherine II of Russia. At this time he determined to publish the material he had accumulated on the voyage. (...) Houel was one of the first French artists to discover the antique ruins still visible in Sicily." (Millard, French Books, 80, note). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.